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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Rare video: Michael Jackson/Jackson 5 bantering with Bob Hope

The song numbers preceding and following this TV moment are on YouTube (Get It Together and Dancing Machine, respectively), but both excerpts omit the brief interlude when comedian Bob Hope saunters up to the brothers and banters with them.

The repartee is obviously scripted, but note how the script is a crisp comic gem--much preferable, if you ask me, to the inane, vapid chitchat that passes for TV talk these days. In the realm of Bob Hope, then America's king of one-liners, not even the few minutes between musical numbers should be left to idle blather. His back-and-forth with the Jackson brood is sharp and fast and funny (young Michael gets some of the best lines), and notable for poking fun even at himself:

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